Secrets Kept
Rating: R
Fandom: Young Avengers
Characters: Wiccan, Hulkling, Young Avengers, Kaplans, OC
Notes: Fanfic100 prompt #71-Broken
Warnings: Mentions of rape and beating.
Disclaimer: This is me owning nothing.
071: Broken
When Billy had stumbled inot his house, beaten and bruised and bleeding from various points on his body at two in the morning, his parents thought he ws drunk. It took them very little time to realize he was not, and by that point his mother as calling an ambulance.
Pain shot through him as parts of his shattered cell phone embedded themselves deeper in his leg. He whimpered and leaned on his father before passign out, just as the EMTs came through the door.
*
Rebecca Kaplan handled the authorities whie her husband held their son’s hand. He was laying on a hospital bed, unconscious, unmoving. She felt a stab of fear and quashed it when she wsa tempted to have an out-and-out breakdown.
That would serve no purpose, she told herself. And the doctors would hospitalize her, too, and then where would they be?
"Jeffery, someone needs to check on the kids and make sure they get to school," she said.
Neither of them wanted to leave.
*
Teddy wsa with him, sound asleep, head on arms, arms on bed, when Billy awoke a week and a day later. Billy groaned groggily through a fog of confusion, pain, and medication. Teddy lifted his head.
"Mmph… Billy?"
Billy blinked up at the ceiling and started trying to move various parts of his body.
"Babe, you’re awake!"
Billy raised a trembling, aching hand and dropped it, unable to hold it up anymore. He hissed when he tried to move it again, and whimpered when he shifted his legs.
Teddy brushed his hair back and smiled at him. "I was so worried."
"Mm-sa," Billy said, in an attempt to speak through the medication.
"Here. Lemme call your parents," Teddy said, reaching for his phone and backing up a bit. "I’ll be a minute."
*
The were all there when the police came to question him. His parents, the brats, Teddy, Tommy, and the team. He was a little surprised at that. He’d expected them to distance themselves from him. After all, how did it look that one of their own wsa in the hospital for something he stopped every day?
They’d all taken a very protective stance on everything, though.
The man asking the questions was a nervous older man named Wallace, and he sweated and stammered all through the interview.
Billy’s answers provided them with nothing, and the man and his partner left very shortly.
Inevitably(thankfully), visiting hours ended. His family hugged him, each in turn, and left quickly, informing him they were only a phone call away. Eli and Kate swore to avenge him. Kate left her number on the nightstand. Cassie hugged him awkwardly and left. The Vision looked him over and Billy got the distinct feeling he was beign bioscanned before he followed her out. Tommy lingered for a few tremulous seconds, almost saying something, then was gone.
Teddy kissed him on the cheek. He shuddered a bit, trying not to for his boyfriend’s sake.
"Call, okay?"
"Yeah."
Billy watched him leave and shuddered. The cop, Wallace, walked by on his way to someone else’s room. He glanced in. Billy glanced out. He met the man’s nervous eyes and swore never to tell.
Fandom: Young Avengers
Characters: Wiccan, Hulkling, Young Avengers, Kaplans, OC
Notes: Fanfic100 prompt #71-Broken
Warnings: Mentions of rape and beating.
Disclaimer: This is me owning nothing.
071: Broken
When Billy had stumbled inot his house, beaten and bruised and bleeding from various points on his body at two in the morning, his parents thought he ws drunk. It took them very little time to realize he was not, and by that point his mother as calling an ambulance.
Pain shot through him as parts of his shattered cell phone embedded themselves deeper in his leg. He whimpered and leaned on his father before passign out, just as the EMTs came through the door.
*
Rebecca Kaplan handled the authorities whie her husband held their son’s hand. He was laying on a hospital bed, unconscious, unmoving. She felt a stab of fear and quashed it when she wsa tempted to have an out-and-out breakdown.
That would serve no purpose, she told herself. And the doctors would hospitalize her, too, and then where would they be?
"Jeffery, someone needs to check on the kids and make sure they get to school," she said.
Neither of them wanted to leave.
*
Teddy wsa with him, sound asleep, head on arms, arms on bed, when Billy awoke a week and a day later. Billy groaned groggily through a fog of confusion, pain, and medication. Teddy lifted his head.
"Mmph… Billy?"
Billy blinked up at the ceiling and started trying to move various parts of his body.
"Babe, you’re awake!"
Billy raised a trembling, aching hand and dropped it, unable to hold it up anymore. He hissed when he tried to move it again, and whimpered when he shifted his legs.
Teddy brushed his hair back and smiled at him. "I was so worried."
"Mm-sa," Billy said, in an attempt to speak through the medication.
"Here. Lemme call your parents," Teddy said, reaching for his phone and backing up a bit. "I’ll be a minute."
*
The were all there when the police came to question him. His parents, the brats, Teddy, Tommy, and the team. He was a little surprised at that. He’d expected them to distance themselves from him. After all, how did it look that one of their own wsa in the hospital for something he stopped every day?
They’d all taken a very protective stance on everything, though.
The man asking the questions was a nervous older man named Wallace, and he sweated and stammered all through the interview.
Billy’s answers provided them with nothing, and the man and his partner left very shortly.
Inevitably(thankfully), visiting hours ended. His family hugged him, each in turn, and left quickly, informing him they were only a phone call away. Eli and Kate swore to avenge him. Kate left her number on the nightstand. Cassie hugged him awkwardly and left. The Vision looked him over and Billy got the distinct feeling he was beign bioscanned before he followed her out. Tommy lingered for a few tremulous seconds, almost saying something, then was gone.
Teddy kissed him on the cheek. He shuddered a bit, trying not to for his boyfriend’s sake.
"Call, okay?"
"Yeah."
Billy watched him leave and shuddered. The cop, Wallace, walked by on his way to someone else’s room. He glanced in. Billy glanced out. He met the man’s nervous eyes and swore never to tell.